Ex Parte WASSOM et al - Page 3





                 Appeal No. 2004-2363                                                                                      Page 3                     
                 Application No. 09/224,211                                                                                                           




                                                                    OPINION                                                                           

                          In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to                                             

                 the appellants' specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the                                            

                 respective positions articulated by the appellants in the brief and reply brief and the                                              

                 examiner in the final rejection and answer.  As a consequence of our review, we make                                                 

                 the determinations which follow.                                                                                                     



                          Claims 7 and 81 read as follows:                                                                                            

                          7.       The method of claim 6, wherein changing a collection comprises adding a                                            
                          user interface control.                                                                                                     

                          8.       The method of claim 6, wherein changing a collection comprises removing                                            
                          a user interface control.                                                                                                   



                          Moody's invention provides a software facility for dynamically synthesizing an                                              

                 application that is customized for the user of the application based on characteristics, or                                          

                          1 Parent claims 1 and 6 read as follows:                                                                                    
                          1.       A method of regulating user interface controls, the method comprising:                                             
                                   receiving a user identity for a user;                                                                              
                          accessing a maturity level for the user in a database based on the user identity;                                           
                                   automatically associating a grouping with the user identity by selecting a grouping from                           
                          among a plurality of groupings based on the maturity level for the user; and                                                
                                   automatically providing a set of user interface controls corresponding to the identified                           
                          grouping, the set of user interface controls including a toolbar.                                                           
                          6.       The method of claim 1, wherein automatically providing the set of user interface controls                          
                          comprises changing an existing collection of user interface controls.                                                       









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